Bay Middle School students show aptitude for picking stocks

View full sizeStock Market Challenge winners in the front row are Makayla Minnes and Ben Andrassy. In the back row are teacher Gina Tianello and students Delaney McDonald and Connor Flynn.

Bay Middle School students participated in the recent 2012 Ohio Stock Market Challenge.

Two seventh-grade teams won prizes by turning their $100,000 in virtual dollars into a profitable stock portfolio by buying and selling stock in real-time prices through the simulated Stock Market Challenge brokerage account.

Seventh-graders Delaney McDonald and Connor Flynn won the first-place prize in the grades 4-8 division of the competition. The final value of their portfolio was $107,528.18.

Seventh-graders Makayla Minnes and Ben Andrassey took third place in the grades 4-8 division. Their portfolio was worth $103,650.61 at the end of the game.

The Cleveland Center for Economic Education and Ashland University sponsor the area competition. Bay Middle School’s winning teams also were rewarded with a pizza party for their classroom. The students’ advisor in the competition was Bay Middle School enrichment resource teacher Gina Tianello.

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